The Notion Club Papers (NCPs) is a novel by JRR Tolkien - unfinished and unpublished during his lifetime. The Notion Club was a fantasy version of The Inklings.

Friday, 29 August 2014

My recent Inklings pilgrimage

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Beside the remnants of 'Tolkien's Tree' (Pinus nigra) in the Oxford Botanic Gardens.
(The gash in the stone wall to the right of my head and slightly up, was made by a large branch falling from this tree, unexpectedly - leading to the need to cut-down the tree for public safety reasons.)

On Addison's Walk, Magdalen College - where CS Lewis had the late night conversation on myth with Tolkien and Dyson which led to his conversion